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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>Adapted from a Seminary of the Southwest </em><a href="http://www.ssw.edu/seminary-discuss-new-jim-crow-during-black-history-month"><em>announcement</em></a></p>
<p>Seminary of the Southwest will <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/cghmdj1gin85dou1ff30p6ajsn4">stream a lecture</a>, “The Cruel Hand, the Birdcage, and the Fire this Time: A Theological Reflection on The New Jim Crow,” at 6 p.m. February 2.</p>
<p>The lecture is by <a href="http://www.austinseminary.edu/cf_news/view.cfm?newsid=531">Asante Todd</a>, assistant professor of Christian ethics at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Online participants may submit questions during the evening’s Q&amp;A session. A discussion of <a href="http://thenewpress.com/books/new-jim-crow"><em>The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness</em></a> by Michelle Alexander will follow.</p>
<p>The seminary has scheduled two other events, both open to the public, for Black History Month:</p>
<ul><li>February 16, 4 p.m. — Margie Bedford will discuss her experience as the first black woman to integrate the Austin school system.</li>
<li>February 26, 5:30 p.m. — Southwest will host a worship service in Christ Chapel featuring the Huston-Tillotson Gospel Choir and preaching by the Rev. Kim Baker, an MDiv alumna of the seminary. A reception will follow.</li>
</ul><p>Academic Dean Scott Bader-Saye hopes the events, besides honoring the many contributions that African Americans have shared with the country, will help the seminary community and guests grow in their awareness of race-based injustice.</p>
<p>“If justice is to ‘roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream,’ it is a task for all of us,” he said. “Racism is a rhizomatic scourge, springing up from multiple sources, finding expression in multiple locations.”</p>
<p>The Rev. Hunter Ruffin, senior seminarian from the Diocese of Southeast Florida and student chairman of the planning committee, explains the choice of events for Black History Month 2015 at the seminary.</p>
<p>“Like so many Americans, the members of the committee responded with grave concern over the events that unfolded last fall in the cases of Eric Garner and Michael Brown,” he said. “As a result, the committee set out to explore during Black History Month the intersection of race and justice in America.”</p>
<p>A student-led committee of faculty, trustees, and friends of the seminary has organized the events.</p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/seminary-southwest" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Seminary of the Southwest</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/black-history-month" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Black History Month</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-categories-top field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Categories:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/lead-story" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Lead Story</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/news" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">News</a></div></div></div>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 16:04:54 +0000Web Editor1937 at http://www.livingchurch.orgKittredge to Lead Southwesthttp://www.livingchurch.org/kittredge-lead-southwest
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href="http://www.ssw.edu/leadership-transition-announced">Adapted from Seminary of the Southwest</a></p>
<p>The Very Rev. Douglas Travis, dean and president of Seminary of the Southwest since June 2007, has announced his retirement on May 31. He will be succeeded by the Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge as the seminary’s eighth dean and president.</p>
<p>“Personally I have found being the dean and president of Seminary of the Southwest enormously satisfying, and I’m very gratified by the achievements of the last six years,” Dean Travis <a href="http://www.ssw.edu/letter-dean-president-douglas-travis">wrote to the seminary community</a>. “Even so, as I approach my 60th birthday, I’m conscious that it’s time for a new season not only in the seminary’s life but in my personal life.”</p>
<p>Kittredge has served as the seminary’s academic dean since 2010 and professor of New Testament since she joined the faculty in 1999. She holds degrees from Williams College and Harvard Divinity School, where she earned a Th.D. in 1996. She was ordained to the priesthood in 1985 and is canonically resident in the Diocese of Texas. She has served as an assisting priest at Church of the Good Shepherd since 1999.</p>
<p>Dr. Kittredge is author of <em>Community and Authority: The Rhetoric of Obedience in the Pauline Tradition</em> and <em>Conversations with Scripture: The Gospel of John</em>. She co-edited <em>Walk in the Ways of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza</em> with Shelly Matthews and Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre.</p>
<p>Dean Kittredge served on the Theological Education in the Anglican Communion Steering Committee in 2009-12. She was elected president of the Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars in 2008 and has served on the board of Evangelical Education Society since 2005 and now chairs the board. Dr. Kittredge and her husband, Frank D. Kittredge, Jr., live in Austin and have three grown children.</p>
<p>Dean Emeritus Travis will be honored at a celebration on May 12 and in retirement will divide his time between Dallas and Albuquerque.</p>
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